Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff.
Top News
The hits keep on coming for the Irish wideouts as Joe Wilkins had foot surgery recently and is out indefinitely. The hope is that he’ll return for the regular season.
On Wednesday afternoon, defensive tackle Chris Smith was added as grad transfer from Harvard. He originally committed to Minnesota but switched his allegiance to the Irish after a visit this past weekend.
If you haven’t heard already, Notre Dame is set to play a FCS team in 2023 and it’ll be a Historical Black College & University with a coaching connection to Marcus Freeman.
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby will be stepping down later in 2022. He’s led the conference since 2012 and the league has already announced they’d like to quickly find his replacement.
Baylor athletic director Mack Rhodes recently signed a 10-year extension.
Athletes in the state of Louisiana are now able to get NIL deals in high school. Hello, Arch Manning.
Boise State announced major renovations to their athletic facilities, including the football stadium.
Clemson wide receiver Adam Randall–their 5th best recruit in the 2022 class–tore his ACL during spring practice.
Uniform of the Week
You may know the history of Iowa’s uniforms and that in 1979 then head coach Hayden Fry wanted to “look like winners” and asked permission from the Pittsburgh Steelers to wear their look in the college game. Then and now, it remains one of the most despicable decisions in Big Ten history. The Steelers’ number font these days at least provides some difference between the teams in addition to the helmet logos. However, I haven’t seen a single alternate Iowa uniform that I didn’t like better than their Steelers knock-offs.
My aversion to Iowa’s look is so strong that I think the above yellow-clad get up looks amazing to me. I know it’s not actually amazing, though. Or is it? No, it would be amazing if they wore black pants instead. Either way, please for the love of God stop wearing the Pittsburgh uniforms. Although, this got me thinking which college teams could pull off stealing a NFL uniform. My guesses off the top of my head:
Oregon – Green Bay Packers
Louisville – Atlanta Falcons
SMU – Buffalo Bills
Virginia – Chicago Bears
Duke – Indianapolis Colts (they’re already doing this, basically)
Iowa State – Kansas City Chiefs
Michigan State – New York Jets
Am I missing anything obvious?
Recruiting
Five-star edge rusher Lebbeus Overton (0.9906) previously re-classified from 2023 to 2022. He committed to Texas A&M on April 1st. That gives the Aggies 8(!) Composite 5-stars in their 2022 class, plus 18 players total in the Composite top 100 rankings.
Tight end Andrew Rappleyea (0.9046) committed to Penn State.
Ohio safety Malik Hartford (0.9183) is staying in-state with Ohio State.
Former top 50 recruit from the 2021 class in receiver Agiye Hall is leaving Alabama after being suspended from the team. Hey, we need some wide receivers!
Ohio State safety Bryson Shaw is leaving the Buckeyes. He was 3rd on the team in tackles last year. They also lost 2020 low 4-star safety Lejond Cavazos to the Portal, too.
Canadian defensive lineman Akheem Mesidor is leaving West Virginia. He had 14.5 tackles for loss and 9.5 sacks in 2 seasons for the Mountaineers.
Virginia’s leading rusher Wayne Taulapapa has transferred to Washington.
LSU linebacker Josh White has landed at Baylor following a transfer.
Productive Rice receiver Jake Bailey has transferred to SMU.
YouTube Channel
You can Google the daily routine of Mark Walhberg and see that he goes to bed at 7:30 PM, wakes up at 2:30 AM, and that is the most normal thing about his life. Ever since I learned about this routine it’s all I think about when I see him. For example, this video below for “Dad Jokes” had to be filmed in his 11 AM to 1 PM or 2 PM to 3 PM windows as part of his work calls and such. He also has a 2-hour block (with a snack in there) for golf every morning, yet he lives in Los Angeles and even with 9-holes that isn’t realistic.
Except for the USC roots, I have to think Will Ferrell has some of the highest approval ratings in the business. He seems like a lovely person. His run during the first decade this century was absurd starting with Zoolander, to Old School, to Elf, to Anchorman, to Talladega Nights, and finally Step Brothers. There were a couple duds in there but it’s one hell of a run. Although I confess, I haven’t watched any of Ferrell’s last 7 movies and he’s coming up on a decade without something brilliant. He’ll come through, I think Ferrell is going to have an interesting acting career as he transitions to different roles as he ages.
Tunes
We’re going back in time today to June 1964 when the Four Seasons released a cover of the song “Rag Doll” to the delight of many. Nearly 60 years later, the song still slaps. Go ahead, belt out that falsetto from Frankie Valli as much as you want. I’d also recommend the musical Jersey Boys if you are a fan of the Four Seasons music, too.
I know we have a tendency to think that rock music took over in 1964 but the charts were so varied and featured tons of vocal groups like this for many years to come. Of course, the Beatles had 6(!) singles go to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1964 so their presence dominates the charts. However, “Rag Doll” grabbed the top spot for 2 weeks in July and that’s an impressive feat for the Four Seasons amidst all of the Beatlemania.
Trivia
Notre Dame won its first 209 games when it scored at least 40 points and is currently on a streak of 27 straight wins when scoring 40+ in a game. In between these 2 streaks, the Irish lost 4 times when scoring at least 40 points. Name those 4 opponents and years.
The Other Football
The 2022 World Cup groups are (mostly) set. We still await the results of Scotland vs. Ukraine for the right to play Wales for a spot in Group B with the United States. Also, the United Arab Emirates have to face Australia for the right to play Peru for the other spot, plus Costa Rica and New Zealand face each other for the remaining group spot.
The Champions League quarterfinals kicked off this week with Real Madrid (3-1) beating Chelsea, City (1-0) beating Atletico Madrid, Villarreal (1-0) beating Bayern Munich, and Liverpool (3-1) beating Benfica. The 2nd legs come next week for a chance at the semi-finals.
The first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League began this week with Pumas (2-1) leading Cruz Azul and Seattle Sounders (3-1) going up on NYFC.
Back in the Premier League, we’re entering the home stretch. Arsenal lost 3-0 to Crystal Palace and with a game in hand the Gunners trail 4th place Tottenham. You love to see it. This weekend we have one of the biggest games in recent EPL memory as 1st place City are 1 point up on Liverpool with the team’s meeting level on games played and facing each other at the Etihad Stadium this Sunday at 11:30 AM ET on the USA Network.
Streaming
I get the story behind The Big Short and what led to the housing crisis but I also don’t really get it at anything more than a surface level. I asked my finance-major wife who was very close to working for Deutsche Bank in Manhattan right out of college to explain what happened in a quick 2-minute summary and she declined. She’s also never seen this movie.
Has anyone read the Michael Lewis book? I’m going to add it to my list to knock out this summer. Cash out financing, credit derivatives, credit default swaps, subprime loans, securitization, synthetic CDO’s, hedge fund shenanigans, and corruption from banks and especially regulatory agencies is a whole lot to ingest at once. But, The Big Short does a good job and is super entertaining. In comparison to The Social Network, these movies had the same budget but TSN made about $100 million more at the box office. I always felt like The Big Short was far better and a masterclass in acting and script writing.
A Look Back
Let’s play a game and see how many of these touchdowns you remember watching live:
#10 – Nope, I was somewhere in the athletic fields of New England playing soccer for this one.
#9 – I was -2.5 years old.
#8 – Maybe the most improbable game-winner I can remember watching.
#7 – That’s one ugly pass from Joe Montana!
#6 – Perhaps the most quiet and seething as I’ve ever been during a game, until this point.
#5 – An amazing throw from Kizer and a classic meme was born.
#4 – Game of the Century! Did visiting Irish fans tear down the goalposts?
#3 – The real beginning of the Ian Book era. Also, one of the more surprising touchdowns.
#2 – I was in a hotel near Cedar Point for this one.
#1 – You knew this was coming, it sucks there isn’t a better angle of the touchdown.
18S Paddock Club
After a brief hiatus, Formula 1 is back in the Land Down Under this weekend. If you’re reading this on Friday morning, they’ve already completed the first 2 practice sessions in Melbourne. This was the site of the infamous cancelled race in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit then the Australian government wouldn’t allow F1 to come back for the 2021 season. The last race in 2019 saw Mercedes lock out the front row with Bottas beating Hamilton to the 1st corner and cruising to an easy victory. Since 2014 in the turbo-hybrid era, Hamilton has taken every pole in Australia.
Australia Grand Prix
Albert Park Circuit
FP1 4/7 11:00 PM ET
FP2 4/8 2:00 AM ET
FP3 4/8 11:00 PM ET
Qualifying 4/9 2:00 AM ET
Race 4/10 1:00 AM ET
The circuit at Albert Park will look a little different since the last race in 2019. Turn 1 has been widened 2.5 meters to the right. The heavy braking zone at turn 3 has been widened by 4 meters to the right. Turn 6 has been widened by nearly 8 meters to the right. The chicane at turns 9/10 is now gone. Turn 11 (old turn 13) has been re-profiled to aid overtaking and widened by 3 meters to the right. Turn 13 (old turn 15) has been widened slightly to the left and the entire track has been resurfaced. The changes are predicted to bring 5-second faster lap times.
Modifications to Albert Park.
In year’s past, it used to be Red Bull with the stronger car in slow corners and the best mechanical grip, low-gear torque, and supreme acceleration. Now, that seems to be Ferrari while Red Bull are the team with the balanced aero with great straight line speed. The track changes seem to favor Red Bull, although turns 3 and 13 will remain important benchmarks for teams in the slow corners.
This will be the first day race of 2022 and breaks the streak of 5 straight night races stretching back into 2021. The temperatures are expected to be in the mid-70’s and this will be the first true test of the new regulation cars in the heat being able to follow each other and deal with reliability issues, too. Before the season, Pirelli decided to bring C2-C3-C5 tires so expect some smoking times in qualifying with those super soft tires but they probably won’t be used during the race. Even in Saudi Arabia no one used the soft tires.
For the 2018 race, Australia added a 3rd DRS zone after the old fast turn 12. Now, they’ve added a 4th DRS zone after turn 8 which could lead to even more shenanigans at the DRS detection zones. There’s also a chance of rain during the race. I suspect this could be a very wild race with a crazy podium and a first-career victory for the Smooth Operator.
1st – Carlos Sainz, Ferrari
2nd – Max Verstappen, Red Bull
3rd – Valtteri Bottas, Alfa Romeo
Trivia Answer:
Michigan State, 2005, 44-41 Loss
Navy, 2007, 46-44 Loss
Northwestern, 2014, 43-40 Loss
Texas, 2016, 50-47 Loss
Is that Kendall roy in the foreground of the pic from the big shirt? Definitely didn’t remember him being in that. Really enjoyed that movie. Was also 23 and in grad school during the financial crisis, was completely oblivious to everything going on. Miss that naivety
A couple weeks ago I mentioned ralph russo podcast appearance on sampsons podcast. I guess we know now why he totally p****footed around criticizing kelly at all. Had to get that exclusive interview
Yup, chews gum the entire movie.
Not necessarily uniform, but Georgia stealing the Green Bay G logo for the helmet has to be high up the list on shared pro/college looks.
Good call, that arrived with Vince Dooley in 1964 switching the team from plain gray helmets.
#8 was on my answering machine for months.
#6 I was there and remember thinking during that game “we don’t have a very good coach”.
#3 Was that a turning point in ND fortunes?
#2 Just an awesome FB game.
#2 I grew up in South Bend. Was in Jr high or freshman for this game, and my older sister had received 2 free tickets. She took a friend instead of me and i was pissed. When she came home, she thought ND had lost because they left before the 4th quarter “because they were cold”. I still havent forgiven her for that.
That is the proper thing on your part
Re: 08 crisis explanation (maybe)
Mortgages easier to get, little to no income verification, intense construction of the “mcmasions” and variable rate mortgages that allowed folks to borrow above their income, with the promise of refinancing once the super low teaser apr. Went away.
I think all this occured due to the banks making great profits on securities that were comprised of mortgages, “mortgage backed securities”.
Since these bundles of mortgages were viewed traditionally as stable things, i.e. people make their mortgage payments every year, then having large securities of these super stable definitely-not-going-fail mortgages was a sure fire thing. However, I think to maintain previous profit margins, banks needed increasingly larger volumes of mortgages to lump into them (I think) therefore this placed pressure to get more mortgages, which drove the risk tolerances wayyy up, leading to those “sub prime” (riskier) mortgage types mentioned above.
I think dr burry, Christian bale’s character, discovered that the overwhelming majority of the subprime mortgage securities were comprised of these variable rate super bad loans, and knew when the great refinancing of the homes would happen, it would tank the securities as a whole, due to high likelihood of defaulting on many loans. This is what leads to the “credit default swap” or shorting the mortgage securities. Dr burry banked on these eventually tanking, so he committed huge short positions on them, to the dismay of his investors.
Some of the other folks in the movie realised that even the AAA sure fire best mortgage securities, were built on the pyramid of the sub prime ones, so the entire mortgage market was a deck of cards. Therefore the late to the party people began shorting not only the sub primes, but also the AAA securities. Further, I think there were even more investments that were entirely based on the success of the mortgage securities, CDOs(?), and there were CDOs on the CDOs, so this whole iterative side bet game all based on the initial flawed mortgages.
So when all the teaser variable rates expired, everyone rushed to refinance, but they were still overleveraged on their houses, and the defaults began to happen, which in turn began to tank all the mortgage backed securities, the CDOs and led to all the loss of invested wealth.
I’ve seen the movie several times, and read some more into it, but I’m not a finance person, and am going off memory for most of this. Further, I fully admit the 08 collapse affected me on a visceral level as I was a sophomore in college and saw my hometown experience 30% unemployment, so I get pretty emotional about the whole thing. Any other folks more well versed it please correct any errors in my synopsis above.
Good stuff.
I would order things differently. It’s a small change but important.
-huge pool of money (e.g., pension funds) looking for a good return but also low risk
-banks realize mortgages fit that description and begin bundling
-huge pool of money loves it and wants more
-when no more homes exist, banks start lowering requirements so they can get more mortgages and bundle them, particularly mcmansions. Incentives for signing mortgages become incredibly lucrative.
-people who can’t afford a mcmansion start getting them.
-something, something leveraging (this part i never grasped)
-etc.
That’s a big distinction, thanks for the clarification!
In general, I feel like knowledge about this event is super important, as least layman’s (pun for leymans) level, as it affected the whole world, and a lot of people arent sure as to its mechanisms.
Plus we still feel the effects today. Post ’08, tons of contractors quit or went out of business, so there was basically a decade of lower volume home building, which led to a lower home inventory now (low supply) coupled with the all time low interest rates on mortgages (cheaper money lending = greater demand) yields these insane home prices of today.
Im not in finance, but I read the book when it came out and was fascinated. It goes into a lot of the nuts and bolts of what happened, and I am not sure I remember it all. Some of the key points I remember:
sorry, these are my morning recollections of a book i read over a decade ago.
I thought Liar’s Poker was pretty boring. It did do a good job explaining the actual invention of the MBS, but outside of a few fun anecdotes, was a bunch of technical finance talk. Came across more like a text book to me. I had recently finished a project on MBS for a math class, so I had no interest in the details of how they technically worked. Might have been more interesting otherwise?
What I did take away is that a greedy guy lead a bunch of other greedy guys (I seem to recall them being sloppy eating Italian men) to create MBSs just so they had something to trade and take a commission. This helped lead to what the others describe pretty well.
I’m also a believer that this whole topic is incredibly confusing by design. Many products (looking at crypto and NFTs) are deliberately super complicated to create an allure and attempt to ensure a privileged few can truly grasp what is happening.
The part of the big short that cements this idea is when Selena Gomez is gambling and other people are taking side bets on her bets. It’s a labyrinth of absurdity.
Yeah. I thought the Big Short did a great job of explaining it and more so the effects at a useful level.
I agree about the confusing part, so understanding it from a theory/math standpoint I feel is our best weapon to combat the intentional absurdity. Which is why I appreciate everyone’s analysis here helping make make the idea more bite sized.
On topic, does anyone remember the tv commercials in about 2007 for the adjustable rate mortgages (ARM)? I remember being in high school, not understanding the details but thinking out loud “gosh that doesn’t seem like a smart idea” much in the same way I felt a gut negative reaction to the western sky native american payday lending commercials. I guess trusting your gut and trying to find the details why is pretty darn important
Margin Call is a great financial crisis movie too. Jeremy Irons tears it up.
I was a finance major and a senior at ND in fall 2008. Fun times. On the bright side, it got me out of the investment banking track, which thank god for that.
I was your year, apparently. I remember having CNBC on one day – as one did in September 2008 – and the stock market was down a few hundred points again, and I was like “eh, screw it, I’m going to take a nap.” Woke up to be a few hundred points further down. And that was when 500+ point drops really meant something.
Ha, yep. Even today the Dow dropped 413 points and it’ll probably barely be a story.
Also, what do we make of this interview with Kelly?
LSU fans are going to learn that Kelly is extremely blunt. When he says he’s looking forward to only recruiting within driving distance, that means he’s only going to recruit within driving distance.
I found this to be probably true and sort of a self-own:
I alluded to it above but I thought russo refused to criticize kelly at all in his podcast spot with pete sampson a couple weeks ago, especially when it came to recruiting and clearly russo had a relationship with kelly and was working on an article. Some sentiments people have expressed already that kelly went as far with MD as HE could go. The recruiting stuff was weak though. Is having to go to Cali to compete against UCLA too much to ask? going to florida to recruit against randy shannon and al golden too much? have fun consorting against saban and jimbo and lane and all that comes with it in the sec, but hey at least you can drive there
After that article I’m convinced that Kelly is going to have a Mullen-sequel tenure at LSU. He knows what he’s doing on the field, but he’s an arrogant ass who can’t be bothered to put the effort into recruiting.
I would guess he’ll win like 65% of his games and get run off the field by Saban and never win anything of note.
Fun fact — since Rockne, every ND head coach who has left ND and taken another head coaching job elsewhere has posted a losing record at that job.
Would have never guessed holtz had a losing record at south carolina but sure enough.
0-11 the first year is hard to overcome. 33-26 otherwise
I think Kelly might be able to amass enough talent with little to no effort at LSU to be competitive. I truly think the reason we have not been able to be championship level program under Kelly is that we weren’t talented enough on the field. And that falls on the head coach. He’ll get good talent at LSU, and has enough coaching acumen to do ok with that. I don’t think all of that will be good enough to luck into a championship. But I actually don’t think he’ll be a catastrophic failure.
I just can’t envision a realistic scenario where he’s winning big recruiting battles against Saban and Smart. He’s never been even close to their level of psychotic dedication to recruiting and I don’t expect that to change when he’s 60.
Also, recruiting is national for everyone now. The idea that he’s just going to sit on Louisiana and build a title contender out of guys from no more than 200 miles away is not realistic.
I think this is mostly right. I fully agree we couldn’t win a title because we weren’t talented enough, especially at QB/WR/CB/DL at different times and to different degrees. This is Kelly’s fault ultimately and I think we’re seeing with Freeman that the recruiting cap is largely Kelly-caused, not school-caused.
Similarly, he should be able to more easily pull in some very high level talent at LSU. Problem is that Texas A&M and Florida and Texas and Bama and Auburn and Ole Miss are going to be circling right there too. Notre Dame of course has its own battles with Michigan, Ohio State, Stanford, etc. but in a certain way I’m not sure it’s easier to just rake in that talent at LSU. Especially when you factor in Coach O was a very different fit than Kelly, personality and recruiting-wise.
I wouldn’t say catastrophic, but he’s dealing with insane SEC fans and boosters now, so going 6-6 or back to back 8 win seasons is liable to get him fired.
Some won’t like it, but I think he has a point sometimes…
The subtext to that quote, as also mentioned later in the article where Notre Dame has red tape, lack of urgency and movement on Gug 2.0. Which the athletic department acknowledges they will get around to eventually, but isn’t quite in a big hurry to do so. But when you’re a 60 year old head coach, I could see how that chaps your ass a little bit to have everything be a struggle to pull the whole university along, especially since CBK was a donor and contributed a lot where he could to get the upgrades.
When Saban or Dabo want something built, they get it pretty darn quickly. ND is still basking in the glow of the new practice building (which, to be fair is very, very nice) but in this world if you’re not upgrading constantly you’re falling behind when your training table is also doubling as study area or food carts have to be wheeled in and out.
I also would say he’s smart enough to not say the quiet part out loud that he only had a few years left on his contract and ND wasn’t interested in extending him, so he went and got the bag secured with a 10 year, $95m deal from LSU that is mostly guaranteed. That’s a nice windfall for him. Still shitty the awkward way and timing for his departure, but I would say he’s mostly right that after 12 years it was time and probably will be good for both Notre Dame and Brian Kelly to go new directions.
He probably has something of a point, but…
Really, in 12 years, how many times did ND say no to Kelly? He got almost everything he asked for AND a mulligan on a 4-8 season in his seventh year. So the suggestion that he was dragging a reluctant ND along rings pretty hollow to me. I’m sure he feels that way, but maybe a little more self-reflection is warranted there.
Also, the players don’t seem to agree with him about the facilities. The guys on the Twitter spaces right after he left basically said ND’s facilities are fine and players who are actually interested in committing don’t care whether the locker room has 7 TVs or 8.
>I’m sure he feels that way, but maybe a little more self-reflection is warranted there.
I totally agree with that, very good points.
And even though ND wasn’t bending over backwards for every top flight accommodation, they certainly did offer him many levels of support and he seemed like he was easing into a comfort zone for his final years (i.e. building that house across the street from campus).
It’s my opinion, but I think that Mel Tucker contract and James Franklin contract and all the others made Kelly see that he should be under a long-term deal worth a huge pile of money. If the rumors are true, Notre Dame wasn’t interested in giving him another extension (and really probably in the big picture getting comfortable with the idea of transitioning to Freeman in another 1-2 maybe 3 years).
Kelly just accelerated the process and got his money. He’s twisting it as “wanting to join the AL East” or whatever, but he has been a playoff regular at Notre Dame lately. I think that is just easy cover to feign away from the true leading factor ($$$).
Honestly I’d say it’s less about dollar amount than the fact that Mel Tucker and James Franklin got huge extensions despite not actually winning anything, and Kelly took it personally that ND wasn’t going to renegotiate a larger contract for him despite just giving him an extension the previous season.
To be fair, Tucker beat Michigan twice, and Franklin, uh…..lost to Illinois at home in 9 OT?
Well Kelly hasn’t really won anything either, as least anything that puts a coach on the map at ND. Beating all of the teams you’re supposed to is its own kind of accomplishment, but he wasn’t being poorly compensated here by any stretch.
The move was largely about Kelly’s pile of guaranteed money, and his rationalizations in the media only make him and his former employer look worse. He would do well to keep ND’s name out of his f*cking mouth going forward and instead focus on convincing LSU fans that going 9-3 is a great accomplishment.
Hot take: Uptown Girl is the best Four Seasons song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4pIZmc7MgY
I’ve never seen this before, but I love it.
The Social Network vs The Big Short… i haven’t heard of the former and watched the later. So despite TSN’s win in the box office, I know of The Big Short.
Really wish I’d read all the F1 fantasy rules before yesterday. Left a lot of points on the table. But it’s nice to be on the west coast, pretty excited to put the kids to bed, finish the chores, and tune in to a 10pm race!
I’m going to watch in the morning, I can’t do 1 AM ET ughh.
[Narrator voice] 46and2 did indeed tune in at 10pm, but only lasted until lap 18 before falling asleep on the couch like an old man.
Finished watching the race this morning with my 7yo though, so that was cool.
Watched it this morning. Looks like I picked the wrong week to set Sainz as my TD.
I blew my MD week 1 on Max (DNF). But somehow still got a few points, maybe from quali? Didn’t understand that we only get 1 MD.
I should probably read ALL the rules one of these days, but I like surprises. It’s all in good fun!
I think you get two MD’s per season? I’ll have to check…
Yeah, I think you’re right. But just 1 MD per half of the season. Most of the top half of the 18s team still hasn’t used it. That makes sense, to save it until things shake out a little.
I used mine on Leclerc last race, which wasn’t terrible, but def should have saved it.
Midfield is interesting this year. Hotta’s and Kmag both looked great first two races but have fallen off some. Are Mclaren getting their footing to compete for 4th?
If Red Bull can get their cars to finish some damn races, we might have an honest to god three way race for WCC and WDC
Clemson spring game notes:
–took both offenses 7 total drives to get one first down to start
–Their defense front looks nasty as ever, Dabo predicted 7 NFL draftees next year from this group
–Their o-line might be shaky
–DJ U was 17/36, 175 yards, 0 TD, 1 INT and seemed as inconsistent and ineffective much like 2021
–Cade Klubnik, the 5-star early enrollee went 15/23, 106 yards, 1 TD, 0 INT
–Overall, Grace Raynor their writer for The Athletic said it “felt like a rerun of 2021” with a stagnant offense
–Dabo afterwards said “DJ’s definitely still our starter. He’s not done anything to not be our starter.”
Uiagalelei might be the weirdest one hit wonder ever. He was so good against ND, kinda crazy if he has the best performance by an ND opponent ever and then just washes out, like it never happened. Gotta think by November there’s a really good chance Klubnik is QB1 if current trends and directions continue.
Also think that ND/Clemson could be like a 17-13ish type of game in either direction, even though it’s only April and the game is late in the year so who knows by then.
Interesting, thanks.
In retrospect, DJU’s performance against ND reminds me of back in the 2000s and early 2010s when, at least once a season, ND would win a one-game Heisman for some nobody backup QB who would go on to do absolutely nothing else. I think we did that like four times for Michigan alone.
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Denard Robinson is the one that blows my mind.
Just here to say your take on The Social Network is very wrong and bad, and The Big Short is a much worse movie 😉
My critiques:
The story behind Facebook was too well known to me, and I’d assume many others. Here’s the synopsis from the IMDB:
That’s like 95% of the movie.
Everyone in the movie (except maybe Andrew Garfield’s character) is so incredibly dislikable. I have a hard time with movies that don’t have a hero or establish an anti-hero you’re rooting for.
Facebook sucks, and everyone in the movie sucks. They do a good job of showing that so it was well done in that regard 🙂